Klaus says “too late” to stop the train
Klaus caved. Keep signing anyway!
By Don Hank
I want to thank those who signed the petition. You did the right thing. I think Vaclav Klaus would have held out, but his advisors probably told him “they have all the cards.”
Laigle’s Forum received a thank you note from Klaus this weekend for the support we gave him, and I don’t think it is naïve to say he meant it. Others who emailed or wrote him reported that he had also thanked them personally.
He was beaten down. But his reasons for opposing Lisbon were not the right ones. He was concerned about the Sudetenland, which is a WW II issue. Not that the issue is or ever was settled, but the point is, the salient issue of the EU was simply the dictatorial nature of the beast. It was not a Czech issue. It forces all national governments to bend to its will in matters of conscience, for example, by introducing the notion of “hate” into law, where it has no business being. Hate is a private matter and must be resolved on the private level. If it can’t be resolved, then that is still not a matter for the State.
The EU will decay and fail for lack of moral authority, but before it does, it will drag down nations that could have been perfectly good with a little free debate and a grain of faith.
But free debate will be banned. For the foreseeable future.
The 1000 years of darkness Ronald Reagan spoke of is in the works.
From a human standpoint, there is one last chance: a truly conservative party could be elected in the UK and demand another referendum there. It is likely that, should this happen, the people there would reject Lisbon or whatever they would be calling the treaty by then.
For this reason, I am asking: Please continue to sign the petition, even though Vaclav Klaus is no longer the subject. The petition started averaging about 1,000 signatures a day after Laigle’s Forum got involved.
Klaus knew that if he could have held out, there was this chance of the UK being encouraged to leave the EU. You and I know that there still is this chance because most of us are people of faith.
But the UK must be a moral force before it is a political force. If the people there continue to reject God and His mandates, and allow Islam and/or humanism to supplant Him, then nothing they do or say will save them because a rigid, near-totalitarian socialism is then the only option and that does not work, never has. They can march, they can organize, they can protest, they can sue, they can petition. It won’t do a bit of good. A spiritual revival and a humble, praying populace is the real hope of that nation and all others.
I appeal to Mr. Klaus to look to his only Hope as well. Please pray for him to find the way, the truth and the life. Sign the petition and alert your friends to it, prayerfully, as a show of faith.
And one more thing: If you decide to pray in love for Mr. Klaus, let him know this by sending him a brief email to his various offices.
The following is my email in response to his signing of the treaty:
Dear President Klaus,
I recently devoted a few days of my time to urging people to sign a petition encouraging you not to sign the treacherous Lisbon document. I did so because I believe you are one in a million. You are different from the others. I know you did not want to sign and felt pressured. I am not upset or angry at you for doing this, particularly since many Europeans had warned me that you probably would. I know you did it because you are thinking and acting in your own power, having been educated as a European humanist.
However, as you can see, the fruits of humanism inevitably end in slavery to the many by the few. This is because of a principle enunciated in the Bible: There is a way that seems right to men but the end thereof are the ways of death. This principle has led, for example, to over 100 million deaths of the unborn in the world, to the worship of “sexual orientations” that bring disease and unhappiness to millions, and to laws that “protect” people from information that could show them how to stay healthy in mind and body by avoiding these; laws that “protect” non-Christians but fill European cities with angry mobs, countless welfare cases, a surge in rape and prostitution, which threaten your safety, while making Christian speech all but illegal. Don’t you see life being supplanted by death here? It is as plain as the nose on your face. Yet you have ignored this totalitarian aspect of the EU while harping on the Sedetenland, as if the treatment of Czech Germans were the salient evil of the day. This issue is so terribly irrelevant to the rest of Europe! You should have stood up for honest hardworking traditional Europeans who love their homelands and their God, but you were blind to their pain and suffering.
Therefore, I invite you to think on a higher level from now on. Believe it or not, God loves you and wants to use you for His glory.
Freedom comes from within our hearts, not from powerful politicians, laws or treaties. Therefore, please focus on making Europe free, with or without the EU, not as the President of the Czech Republic but as a redeemed human being, because that is so much, so much more. Repentance is the first step. Redemption is the next. The rest are automatic. For further instructions, see the Holy Bible.
God bless you and keep you!
Don Hank
Don Hank
‘Too late’ to stop Lisbon Treaty, concedes last EU leader left to sign
Czech president Vaclav Klaus said he could not block the EU treaty
The only EU leader who has not yet signed the Lisbon reform treaty has conceded he will not be able to derail it.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus’s admission has paved the way for the document to become law.
The treaty has already been signed by the leaders of the other 26 EU states but had been put in doubt by Mr Klaus’s last-minute objection over World War Two property claims.
Some had speculated he wanted to delay signing until after a general election in Britain, in the hope the Conservatives would be victorious and call a referendum.
Mr Klaus said: ‘I will not and cannot wait for the British election. They would have to hold it in the coming days or weeks.’
He had demanded an opt-out to shield his country from property claims by Germans expelled after the war.
The new hurdle raised concern it could require new talks and another agreement by all EU members, threatening to undo years of diplomatic work to create an acceptable treaty.
But eurosceptic Mr Klaus, an admirer of Margaret Thatcher, told newspaper Lidove Noviny that despite his opposition to the charter, it had gone too far for him to stop it.
He said: ‘I do not consider the Lisbon Treaty to be a good thing for Europe, for the freedom of Europe, or for the Czech Republic.
‘However, the train has already travelled so fast and so far that I guess it will not be possible to stop it or turn it around, however much we would wish to.’
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October 19th, 2009 at 11:05 pm
Traitors abound!
Those who hold it in their power to stop Tyranny, then do not exercise that power, are non but Traitors themselves!
October 19th, 2009 at 11:55 pm
What a terrible reason for caving!
Sadly, Don, I don’t think the Brits will vote to withdraw. They gave up their guns and their freedom and now they have sharia law and sharia finance in place. I read “why”–some traitorous, greedy MPs sold their country out.
Unless they can get guns without them being intercepted, they’re toast. The Brits got used to Socialism a long time ago and now they have no freedom. Sad…
October 20th, 2009 at 6:56 am
levotb: I suspect you are American? A friend of mine travelled across America recently and told us there are tropps everywhere and indeed checkpoints being put in place…. Americans have been warned about this for ages -and kept their guns. Yet here are the troops and there are the checkpoints. The NWO intend to strangle your country as they are our. How do you get the people to wake up to this? My friend is a lecturer and quite high profile activist, but didn’t really believe in teh checkpoints until she saw them herself. it will be TOO LATE if we all just ‘wait and see’……
October 20th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
” If the people there continue to reject God and His mandates, and allow Islam and/or humanism to supplant Him, then nothing they do or say will save them because a rigid, near-totalitarian socialism is then the only option and that does not work, never has.”
In the spirit of your “free debate” can you explain why you think a compassionate Humanism. if it supplants God (and it needn’t, BTW) leads to totalitarianism. when it more likely leads to the end of militarism and nationalism?
October 20th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
Hello Dwight Gilbert Jones,
I have to admit I thought this was another hit-and-run email with a fake address. I got a shock when I saw you are for real and are an author.
For some reason, very few debate me. Perhaps they think I will get nasty. I am glad you are not the timid type, although I am not nasty, just brutally honest at times. Fair enough?
Thanks for commenting at Laigle’s. I saw your site, read your book blurbs and know more about you now. I would encourage my readers to do likewise. We are not allergic to humanists and their thoughts. In fact we pray for them and debunk their statements often and with little effort.
I can answer your question, but I thought maybe this post of yours deserves an entire article, to which you are very welcome to comment should I find the time to write one.
At any rate, I have approved your comment and here it is now running at the “Klaus caved” article.
I invite you to think about Mr. Klaus and the EU for a moment. Think about why he caved. Think about why his only misgivings had to do with the Sudetenland issue left over from W II and not the issue affecting the freedom of speech of millions (I assume you did not read the 3 or 4 previous articles to this one). You folks are not big on freedom of speech as a rule, and I think that comes with the turf, which is why we expend so much effort opposing your ideas. I invite you to join me as I read article after article sent to me by my friends in the UK and Germany (the latter are in German; don’t know if that is a problem for a highly educated fellow like you) who have felt the sting of supranational government and its encroachment on their freedoms and economies.
If you are game, I will start sharing them with you, but must warn you, they could open your mind. Not that I think you are narrow-minded. I rather think you are young and inexperienced, eerily like my former humanist persona.
Let me start out with a little background info, however:
The EU, like all supranational governments, started out as a bait and switch scheme (see below link). Whether the end results are good is beside the point. People don’t like being fooled. Do you think the UN and other supranationals can be made palatable enough to the people to induce them to vote for them or do you think such schemes are doomed to be put in place by stealth?
You see, that is a response (skimpy though it may be for now) to your question as to why I think humanism is doomed to fail, namely, because it is based on an elitist view and attitude that will inevitably require a totalitarian approach to implement it. 2oth Century history tells me people will soon grow to loathe that and they will not just sit idly by. (I learned during my extended stays in Poland and Russia in the early 70s how the people there quietly but effectively rebelled and eventually ended the Soviet experiment. Why do you think former satellite states Poland and Czechia were some of the nations most opposed to the EU telling them how to run things? Lithuania also has misgivings).
Here is a factual article explaining why I call the EU a bait and switch scheme:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=44030
As far as I know, all such supranational governments are non-democratic and must be non-democratic to work, because if people were told up front that their national leaders were in a plot to end their nation’s sovereignty and culture (including religion), subjugating them to the whims of a self-elected committee of pampered, arrogant, velvet-palmed pseudo-intellectuals who never dirtied their hands in honest labor in their lives, they would reject the scheme from the outset. This is because people are not cattle that can be trained to obey their masters for a handful of grain. Unlike animals we have souls and minds and are capable of loving our nations and our God passionately. We are less capable of feeling passionate about cold far away concepts like world government or world citizenship (I know because I have come as close as anyone to being a world citizen and it is all meaningless without God — and I am not referring to the God of your imagination, Dwight Golbert Jones).
Please do let me know what you think of this for starters.
Best,
Don